New camo laminated grip for the Compact .25
This grip I made to just fit my hand with 1/16th of an inch left over at the bottom. This is in keeping with the idea of what the Compact .25 was supposed to be all about.
The laminate is called Royal Camo and when cutting the stock blank I concentrated on getting the olive color on the surface of both sides of the grip. I could’ve chosen the black or one of the brown’s but the olive looked interesting to me for this first Royal Camo work up.
Grip has 6 more coats to go before it is ready for the rifle 🙂
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Thanks, i’ll try it, sounds like just what i didn’t know i was looking for. 😀
Link to stock finish rubbing compound … takes away the glare and shows off the grain and color under the finish 🙂
The 4 oz. jar will last you for a couple of years. $ 12.99
http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=1126/Product/_ORIGINAL__STOCK_RUBBING_COMPOUND
Yeah Tru-oil brings back the same memories for me. Dad taught me how to whisker stocks and finish them in tru-oil when I was very young.
After getting it too glossy with the hand rubbed finish there is a product that Brownell sells like rotten stone but different … I’ll look it up … it knocks down the mirror like shine and then you can wax it with Johnson’s Paste wax to give it more of a deep luster rather than a mirror like finish on the surface.
I’ll go look that up … I have to order me some more straight away 🙂
Makes me think, i smell Tru-oil and i think of my dad, doin stocks with him when i was a kid, i think he wore it like cologne.
I’m using 320 w/d now, have 400 and 600 to go. Tru-oil will be the finish, i love that stuff and have refinished many gunstocks with it. Ya the detail, especially the stuff against the grain is a bitch. I just think it’s gonna be too shiny for the rest of the gun, but mine won’t look like anyone else’s though. 😀
Nice I like it ! Lots of detail work there 🙂
Get you some wet/dry 320 and 400 for working all of those curves and sand with the grain as much as possible.
If you don’t use the bedliner 😯 stuff .. what did you plan to finish it with ?? Would look SWEET with a hand rubbed finish on it 🙂
This was a mockup to fit the Wokbut, waiting for some threaded inserts from fastenal, camera phone pics are washed out, but it is blue/grey laminate unfinished stock i bought from Leemak a while back. Sad thing is it might just get painted in bedliner in the end.
On sanding a laminate I try to never go below 220 grit … the more scratches you add with say 80 grit paper the more you have to take out.
After it is dead smooth with 220 I progress up to 320 and finally 400. I use a sanding block on the flat areas and the rest is just sandpaper wrapped around a finger. It helps if you wet your finger with water or some of that cash gum that banker tellers use for counting money … keeps the sandpaper stuck to your finger instead of sliding around all over the place.
Cover the large areas with the sanding block first … then do the detail work with your fingers … then hit the large areas one last time with the sanding block 🙂 -Steve-
Sanding is the absolute worst part of dealing with a laminate because of all of the glue in there. Once completed you have a very stable piece of lumber for your efforts.
When I get to the sanding phase I keep reminding myself that next up is the hand rubbed finish when I’ll get to see the final results … makes the sanding go easier me thinks 😉
Keep after it and you’ll be rewarded ! Let’s see a pic of what you have so far.
Nice work, that laminate is not the easiest stuff to work with. Iv’e been sanding on a stock for what seems like forever and i still don’t feel satisfied. 🙁
Funny how those Birds Heads keep showing up in the grips 😆
Maybe I’ll work that into something else on future grips like Buffalo or Deer and Bear … for now the Talon can use a birds head I guess 😀
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Lol’s … let the stock cure for 7-10 days before using the rubbing compound … longer if weather conditions are very humid.
When it loses all of that sticky feeling you know what I mean and the finish feels hard as a rock it’s ready for the final step … you’ll love the results !